
What Is the Church of England, and Who Are the Anglicans?
Here’s what you need to know about the Church of England, the archbishop of Canterbury, and Anglicanism.
Here’s what you need to know about the Church of England, the archbishop of Canterbury, and Anglicanism.
Sam Margarve has been a vocal critic of church leaders who want to bless homosexual unions and those who want to go further and perform marriages for homosexual couples.
COMMENTARY: Incorporating noteworthy contributions from Catholics, the Church of England provided a model to all Christians for how funerals ought to be conducted.
‘There is no official definition, which reflects the fact that until fairly recently definitions of this kind were thought to be self-evident, as reflected in the marriage liturgy,’ the Church of England’s bishop in Europe said, ‘The Telegraph’ reported July 10.
Goodall is the second Anglican bishop of Ebbsfleet to seek full communion with the Catholic Church.
In the guidance, the Church of England states that because of the “ambiguity” regarding sexual activity in civil partnerships, combined with its teaching on the nature of marriage, it does “not believe that it is possible for the church unconditionally to accept civil partnerships as unequivocally reflecting the teaching of the church.”
A pastoral statement from the House of Bishops of the Church of England,” was issued last month in response to a 2019 change to UK law, broadening access to civil partnerships by making them available for heterosexual couples for the first time.
a former Honorary Chaplain to the Queen in the Church of England, Gavin Ashenden will be confirmed into the Catholic Church Dec. 22, 2019.
The guidance applies only to the Church of England and not to other branches of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
Despite many worthy Anglican-Catholic initiatives this week, true unity remains a distant dream.
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